Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...luxuries, but regarded the individual basis as moderate. We must remember, however, that a great many of the Harvard men who make up the total number of registered students are self-supporting, in whole or in part. Most of these, certainly, do not spend ten to twelve dollars per week for board alone. Nor are they apt to spend appreciably, much less liberally, for the luxuries concerning which the discussion has centered. There is the further fact that many of them do not smoke ten-cent cigars at all and a large proportion of them are total abstainers. That such...
...Young Harvard Spends His Money." Total Average per man (approx.)Tuition, $750,000 $188Board, 1,600,000 400Room rent, 500,000 125Clothing, 334,250 84Shirts, 65,375 16Underwear, 33,120 8Haberdashery, 45,300 11Rain coats, 18,020 5Hats, 33,430 8Shoes, 43,750 11Trunks and bags, 12,260 3Taxi service, 53,220 14Hotels, 95,800 24Art goods, 12,675 3Books, 71,250 18Cigars and cigarettes, 98,225 25Confectionery, 7,365 2Flowers, 22,240 6Drugs and chemicals, 6,150 2Athletic goods, 38,540 10Garages and repairs, 83,790 21Insurance, 19,250 5Jewelry, 24,165 6Optical goods, 28,260 7Photographs...
...total of 993 composes roughly 43 per cent. of the total enrollment of the College...
...nature of the western institutions is found in a comparison of the position which state representation occupies in relation to total enrollment in both the eastern and western universities. For example, the largest percentage among the eastern universities of enrollment from its own state over total registration, namely 67 per cent., is found at the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is followed by Columbia with 62 per cent. of its students coming from New York, Cornell with 55 per cent. of its students coming from the same state; Harvard with 50 per cent. of its student body residing in Massachusetts; Yale...
...student clientele of the latter, with the exception of the University of Michigan, is much more local in character. The following figures represent the percentage of the student body in six large universities which claim the state in which the institution is located as their permanent home: Minnesota, 94 per cent.; California, 88 per cent.; Stanford, 78 per cent.; Illinois, 77 per cent.; Wisconsin, 75 per cent.; and Michigan, 53 per cent...